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Nearly 9,000 workers at seafood processing facilities in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau returned to work on February 20, or the second day of the lunar New Year (Tet) to start a new production year.

"The right engine flamed out and triggered a warning in the cockpit. The left engine was shut down by command and the pilot tried to restart the engine but couldn't," said Thomas Wang, director of the agency which is investigating the cause of the accident.

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-O-Cha held talks with his counterpart Najib Razak on December 1 to discuss the progress of peace talks in the southern region of Thailand along the two countries’ shared border.

A town in southwest Japan became the first to approve the restart of a nuclear power station on Tuesday, a step forward in Japan's fraught process of reviving an industry left idled by the Fukushima catastrophe in 2011.

At least 36 people are feared to have died after a Japanese volcano erupted without warning at the weekend, raining ash and stones on hikers, but the search for victims was abandoned on Monday because of fears of rising levels of toxic gases.

TOKYO, July 28 - Japanese officials are handing out radiation-blocking iodine tablets to people living in the shadow of two nuclear reactors slated to restart this year, underscoring concerns about atomic power after the Fukushima crisis.